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our parents put us on commercial flights and sent us here because they were desperate. they were desperate because their children were already being taken away from them. in many different ways. the so-called preeducation in cuba is not really free. all children have to perform agricultural labor in the summer to pay their debt to the revolution, basically pay for their education, and there's no pay involved in this labor. it's slave labor. the kids were being sent to camps in the countryside. the parents had no say in where the kids went or what happened at these camps. so, parents panicked. and there was just -- it's a long and complicated story, but a school headmaster in havana, james baker, who had connections with the u.s. state department, and he managed to get the state department to give him and a group of people in havana cart blanc to draw up visa waivers that would allow kids to leave two or the or four months after they i played. parents required a much longer time. so parents just wanted to get the the kids out first, and the plan was to reunite with them.
our parents put us on commercial flights and sent us here because they were desperate. they were desperate because their children were already being taken away from them. in many different ways. the so-called preeducation in cuba is not really free. all children have to perform agricultural labor in the summer to pay their debt to the revolution, basically pay for their education, and there's no pay involved in this labor. it's slave labor. the kids were being sent to camps in the countryside....
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it's used by all of us because nobody said it is too complicated for consumers. somebody said i don't know how to make a living. i'm going to figure out how to make it smaller and smaller more than the other stops. we released a study this month that said the $81 billion in savings we were going to make by having an investment produced no savings. it's too bad because the government put $25,000,000.40 billion investment why would they not produce any savings? if you've been to the hospital or doctor that you can see in front of you i filled out the form for him, nobody would have done if he wasn't an adult, the surgeon matej said almost certainly iraq to the pimex let's get a scam on him to confirm that. we felt the same seven page form we felt the same 15 minutes before but i know you've all been through it. we went to the emergency room where just for fun while they were waiting for a room i said if i were to pay for this with cash what would happen? it was the equivalent of saying i have a bomb strapped to my chest and i am going to blow up the hospital unless
it's used by all of us because nobody said it is too complicated for consumers. somebody said i don't know how to make a living. i'm going to figure out how to make it smaller and smaller more than the other stops. we released a study this month that said the $81 billion in savings we were going to make by having an investment produced no savings. it's too bad because the government put $25,000,000.40 billion investment why would they not produce any savings? if you've been to the hospital or...
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thank you for joining us. [applause] [applause] i am excited that two other guests are with us tonight, katharine hubbard and her husband. [applause] is one of my favorite people. please stand, the mayor and the first lady. [applause] [cheers] you can visit our website and have access to other great authors and notable people. just go to our website at aggressive form.org. we are pleased to give a look copy to everyone tonight. just together the distribution table in the grand foyer. additional books are also for sale at the bookshop. after justice sotomayor's presentation, she will join me for a q&a session. i should say that supreme court rules do not allow us to discuss court cases of the past or present or future, but we could build deeply into the fascinating story of her life. just as sotomayor lived. i cried when i read the book, "my beloved world." i also laughed. it is a wonderful book. i believe it will be more and been a bestseller. it will become a classic american success story and required readin
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we used cars that use oil, that is a rockefeller gift. and we are consuming news that were developed by people like joseph pulitzer. he came to the united states as a mercenary soldier in the civil war. he didn't really see any action. like many veterans after the war, he was unemployed. it is hard to reinvigorate people into the economy. he ended up in st. louis where he becomes confronted by a major german american who becomes a senator from new york. joseph pulitzer enters the world of press at that point. interesting in regards to modern-day immigrants. it is that kind of speed of immigration that we had in the 19th century when people were coming. he becomes fabulously successful . and he invented a very new form of journalism. it is much like a modern-day surfer. what i mean is that if you go to a beach and look out the water beyond where the waves are breaking, men and women paddle out in the middle of the ocean. some perceive that that will be the best wave of the day, whereas others don't see it. well, in regards to joseph pulitz
we used cars that use oil, that is a rockefeller gift. and we are consuming news that were developed by people like joseph pulitzer. he came to the united states as a mercenary soldier in the civil war. he didn't really see any action. like many veterans after the war, he was unemployed. it is hard to reinvigorate people into the economy. he ended up in st. louis where he becomes confronted by a major german american who becomes a senator from new york. joseph pulitzer enters the world of press...
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then they have to use units. they are constantly deploying troops to prevent slaves from running away to the enemy and joined the union army. they also have to divert troops to contain the deserters. they don't have any extra troops. so the pressure on the of numbers, by the end, by late 1864, i think the 1863 the secretary of war says there are no more white men to be had. and at that point the conversation starts years about whether they have to use black soldiers. bizarre, but i think the perfect arc of justice from slavery as an element of strength to we have to consider in anticipating slaves to force them to enlist in the confederacy. so that's another story i tell in the book is they don't contemplate emancipation out of the goodness of their heart. a lot of people think that the confederacy chose independence over slavery because by the end, some people were willing to enlist black many army. but the confederate congress was used to write and emancipation clause. so you can imagine how much of a nonstarte
then they have to use units. they are constantly deploying troops to prevent slaves from running away to the enemy and joined the union army. they also have to divert troops to contain the deserters. they don't have any extra troops. so the pressure on the of numbers, by the end, by late 1864, i think the 1863 the secretary of war says there are no more white men to be had. and at that point the conversation starts years about whether they have to use black soldiers. bizarre, but i think the...
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of us. but, of course, that's not true. when you that health care is impossibly complex for consumers, one of the things to remember is that nobody in health care can make money by making it easy for you. nobody. think about the computer. i don't understand anything about how any of my computers work. i've got a lot of them. i've got three phones, i've got laptops, i've got tablets, right? is not that into how they work but it's also not because there's one that is the clear superior computer that we all must have. it's, in fact, because of the opposite. this most impossibly complex thing on earth, this thing that was used only by nasa and the irs and ibm. is used by all of us because nobody said to complicated for consumers. somebody said i know how to make a living, i'm going to figure out how to make it smaller and smaller. rand released a study this month that said that the $81 billion in savings we were going to get by making an investment in health i.t. produced no savings. too bad bec
of us. but, of course, that's not true. when you that health care is impossibly complex for consumers, one of the things to remember is that nobody in health care can make money by making it easy for you. nobody. think about the computer. i don't understand anything about how any of my computers work. i've got a lot of them. i've got three phones, i've got laptops, i've got tablets, right? is not that into how they work but it's also not because there's one that is the clear superior computer...
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they used to hold up the dome of the u.s. capitol. however, as it was getting nearer to completion, they found out the sandstone that they used for the columns with and support the full weight. the dome of the capitol right now are the replicas of the columns. these were taken off of the capitol and moved several different locations around washington, d.c., and they finally ended up at the arboretum. these were quarried in virginia had a port where african-americans p8 quarried the stone, put it into blocks, put it on barges heading up the potomac brought to the washington harbor and then put on horse and carriage and brought up to the u.s. capitol. if you go out today, you can actually go out and put your hand on something that african-american slaves worked on for the u.s. capitol. but you don't have to go all the way out to the arboretum to put your hand on something the slaves work on. the national statuary hall outside of the u.s. capitol,úú this used to be the original chamber for the house of representatives. the columns in
they used to hold up the dome of the u.s. capitol. however, as it was getting nearer to completion, they found out the sandstone that they used for the columns with and support the full weight. the dome of the capitol right now are the replicas of the columns. these were taken off of the capitol and moved several different locations around washington, d.c., and they finally ended up at the arboretum. these were quarried in virginia had a port where african-americans p8 quarried the stone, put...
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like us on facebook at facebook.com/booktv or follow us on twitter at booktv. you can also visit our website at booktv.org and click on news about books. booktv interviewed jeffrey macris about his book, "the politics and security of the gulf." this is part of booktv's college college series. it is about 20 minutes long. >> host: jeffrey macris, what is your title mean? >> welcome we represent military professors as a hybrid, adjoining of the professional officer corps, and the professional educators at the naval academy. i spent the first half of my naval career flying aircraft to the u.s. navy. about 10 years ago, i transitioned over to academia. where i had an out standing opportunity to go to school where i specialize in middle eastern history. >> host: now an author, "the politics and security of the gulf" is the name of your book. that's a big topic, isn't it? >> guest: yes, it is. the united states has been involved in three hot wars. it is a big topic that needs to be discussed and investigated. which is part of the reason why we took on this topic. >>
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used to go there regularly. and i think he along with paul volcker and the public sector side or major mentors of mine. and so i think it is fair to say , and you have seen this from the altar was the greatest banker of his age. and that is what city is going back to, i think, at this point in time. we have a lot of prez's city bankers, former citi bankers in this audience who will agree with me. so but as far as, you know, working with walter, and he is the one who got me involved in all of this. john reed later on. we are both, i think, significant world financial leaders. as far as having talked with a lot of people, i think meeting mandela, having dealt with a number of cases, spent an hour in 1980 with fidel castro. he wanted my advice on how to restructure the cuban debt. i said to mike and speak to you about that because we nationalized you in cuba. one of the first tax we did was nationalized the human bank. and then we're kind of even year. and this was in nicaragua. in fact, running the sandinista gove
used to go there regularly. and i think he along with paul volcker and the public sector side or major mentors of mine. and so i think it is fair to say , and you have seen this from the altar was the greatest banker of his age. and that is what city is going back to, i think, at this point in time. we have a lot of prez's city bankers, former citi bankers in this audience who will agree with me. so but as far as, you know, working with walter, and he is the one who got me involved in all of...
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and they come to our court looking to meet with us and to talk to us, each of us to learn from each other. and i travel. i traveled to law school to account the bar association groups. i travel to other kinds of groups as well, because i want to reach out and teach people about the law and about how it makes me so passionate about what i do. if in one meeting with the people i can get them to understand our legal system a little bit better, i hope that they will become better citizens. that they will be more active citizens, and working in the team unity and improving it for everyone. so we're busy on lots of different things, not just him being in the courtroom. that our that lawyers have argued cases before us, it's a microcosm of the work that we put into the case. >> the most popular question submitted was how do the justices get along? [laughter] now, i know that relations among you all are deeply collegial, so i'm wondering, what are the conference rituals and the ways you all build relationships? >> it starts with respect. if you come into this process, appreciating that every sing
and they come to our court looking to meet with us and to talk to us, each of us to learn from each other. and i travel. i traveled to law school to account the bar association groups. i travel to other kinds of groups as well, because i want to reach out and teach people about the law and about how it makes me so passionate about what i do. if in one meeting with the people i can get them to understand our legal system a little bit better, i hope that they will become better citizens. that...
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send us an e-mail at the tv at c-span.org or tweak us at twitter.com/booktv. now on booktv, john allison argues that government incentives and regulation caused the 2008 claps and says that to improve the economy, we need to opt pure free-market policies. it is about 50 minutes. [applause] >> thank you. it is a pleasure to be here. i would like to congratulate heritage on the success that they have had. we did it. this is a pattern we have going forward and the purpose is to talk about my book, which is "the financial crisis and the free market cure." people ask me my i wrote the book. the basic answer is i thought it would be interesting to have somebody who knew what he was talking about write about thinking. because if you look to the academics to some degree, they don't know what they are talking about. [laughter] i think it's very important to undo a myth. these myths become destructive. the method they created is that it was caused by the deregulation on wall street. welcome to the simple fact is that this was not deregulated. we have the privacy act and
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you don't want to be spending a lot of money for results deal neither country in that quadra and with us was luxembourg. i have no idea what they're doing. the problem is for decades now people have been pushing the idea to fix the system is more money more many more money. but i knew firsthand that was not the case weavers' spending more money than any of your jurisdiction yet results were at the bottom with districts right across the river in newark, new jersey spending $22,000 per kid yet operating with the full proficiency in the single digits so to throw more money into a broken system with a different result is faulty. we have to have the transparency where the dollars are going to stop spending money on things that have no impact on kids. when i was in washington d.c. the had a digit of $1 billion per year. of that, a 403, 403 million went into the schools so the majority of the money went into a bloated bureaucracy. that is not where you have the impact it has the impact in the classroom not from the district itself salt and tell lee should delight current and what kind of return
you don't want to be spending a lot of money for results deal neither country in that quadra and with us was luxembourg. i have no idea what they're doing. the problem is for decades now people have been pushing the idea to fix the system is more money more many more money. but i knew firsthand that was not the case weavers' spending more money than any of your jurisdiction yet results were at the bottom with districts right across the river in newark, new jersey spending $22,000 per kid yet...
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can you give us a couple of examples? it is so mind-boggling. >> people do not realize how bad it dodd-frank is. it is a very conscious attitude by status to take this over. if you want to control an economy, control the capital. the way to do it safely is to do it in the bathroom. if you can blame somebody else, it's a great way to do it. [inaudible] they hadn't made any big moves yet. the government can also stop allocation. they control capital ratios we had to have kappas much capital. that is exactly what they want, green energy. they can subsidize it by having the social purposes, whatever that means. today is a mechanism where they can control allocations in the united states. they have also set up this, where we are going to have massive consolidation. the regulatory cost structure is frustrating. it makes you angry. but you can do it. you have to think about things that are productive and running a business and making the bureaucrats happy. to me, it is basically part of the community every day. the micromanageme
can you give us a couple of examples? it is so mind-boggling. >> people do not realize how bad it dodd-frank is. it is a very conscious attitude by status to take this over. if you want to control an economy, control the capital. the way to do it safely is to do it in the bathroom. if you can blame somebody else, it's a great way to do it. [inaudible] they hadn't made any big moves yet. the government can also stop allocation. they control capital ratios we had to have kappas much...
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we have a few people here with us and we are happy to have c-span join us. thank you very much. the illinois channel has been here and liz taylor from the tribune literary book section is with us and we appreciate all of them being here and also voice of america is covering us today as well. before we go on i should tell you all that this is not for c-span we hope you will give our first name and we will shout out to you. and we'll try to get it on air as quickly as we can. if you're watching the archive, all we ask is that we have signed books and we will have some left over, first editions and certainly don't want to be with the screenplay of the lincoln movie after it gets to be an oscar-winner and you don't have assigned. so get it now while you can. if you're on c-span and would like to be a part of us, i hope that you will buy getting to virtual book signing.net and leaving her e-mail to be a part of this virtual book signing family. also i should let you know that next month we are not going to have an author and. instead we are going we are going to launch our new live b
we have a few people here with us and we are happy to have c-span join us. thank you very much. the illinois channel has been here and liz taylor from the tribune literary book section is with us and we appreciate all of them being here and also voice of america is covering us today as well. before we go on i should tell you all that this is not for c-span we hope you will give our first name and we will shout out to you. and we'll try to get it on air as quickly as we can. if you're watching...
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that is what's used for her devotion. she liked to read books by religious leaders, which were very interesting. they were so far from the i am so much better than you are type above. it would be let's look at the bigger picture, certain things that we all have in common, and certainly, she was a very tolerant person. some of the books she liked or gothic -- they were gothic romance. those were books that had pretty racy storylines. we know that she read them because her granddaughter said she did. and she liked them. and in fact, i do believe that the plantation was named for one of the states in the book. we see it in her life as well. the kind of loyalty and non-judgmental mess. nathaniel greene was one of george washington's favorites. he was the general that he could count on to be loyal, to do what he said, to move fast when he needed to move fast. to hold still when he needed to hold still. washington was very fond of his wife, who is a very young and flighty and foolish quarrel. she loved to dance. she loves to fl
that is what's used for her devotion. she liked to read books by religious leaders, which were very interesting. they were so far from the i am so much better than you are type above. it would be let's look at the bigger picture, certain things that we all have in common, and certainly, she was a very tolerant person. some of the books she liked or gothic -- they were gothic romance. those were books that had pretty racy storylines. we know that she read them because her granddaughter said she...
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/booktv or follow us on twitter @booktv. you can also visit our website, booktv.org, and click on news about books. you're watching c-span2, politics and public affairs weekdays featuring live coverage of the u.s. senate. weeknights what's key public policy events in every weekend the lettuce nonfiction authors and books on book tv. you can see past programs and their schedules that our website at, and you could join in the conversation on social media sites. and now, taylor branch, author of the multi it volume of america in the king year's presents his thoughts on key moments in the civil rights movement. this is about an hour 15 spirited. >> thank you, mr. hale. thank you, atlanta. atlanta history center. i have been heretofore. and glad to be back. i am glad to be back talking about something that has been a subject that has been due to me my whole life and is inescapable now . i'm getting older, is my life's work a lamb glad for it. this is another round. i beg to take more questions tonight than i normally do. i am goi
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it is used by all of us because nobody said to compensated for consumers. somebody said, i know how to make a living, i'm going to figure out to make a smaller and smaller. rand released a study this month that said that the $81 billion in savings we're going to get by making an investment in health i.t. produced no sales. too bad because the government put up $25 billion of the $40 billion investment. wide? why did a $40 billion investment giving everybody a box and saw for not producing savings? if you been to a hospital or doctor you can see in front of you, right? i mention i took my son for an appendectomy last month. we walked into the see the surgeon. he had a ruptured appendix, so fortunately i filled out the form for him but i don't know what he would've done if he was an adult at the surgeon said almost certainly a ruptured appendix. let's get a quick scan to confirm it. we went to the same hospital, for force down to get a scan. and we filled out the same seven-page form. before they would see him. we made the obvious point that we filled out the
it is used by all of us because nobody said to compensated for consumers. somebody said, i know how to make a living, i'm going to figure out to make a smaller and smaller. rand released a study this month that said that the $81 billion in savings we're going to get by making an investment in health i.t. produced no sales. too bad because the government put up $25 billion of the $40 billion investment. wide? why did a $40 billion investment giving everybody a box and saw for not producing...
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i think it is useful. these deeper cultural and political trends and deeper conflict within the american psyche, it is more responsible than gerrymandering. the reason i say that is you get pretty much the same kind of politics in the u.s. senate we cannot gerrymander the district. two per state, and in governor's races. governors represent the entire state. it is not about distance, but in congressional races and in state legislative races it can be a factor. and both parties have become very sophisticated choosing there voters instead of having the voters choose them. and so i believe generally bipartisan commissions. but like to see it all run by separate commissions with judicial review rather than have it be done by state legislature. and have it done only once in a decade. we have already talked in virginia about doing what taxes did under tom delay a few years back. that is just poisonous. transparent, if you do if it won such as census comes in and then you get a different majority in the legislatu
i think it is useful. these deeper cultural and political trends and deeper conflict within the american psyche, it is more responsible than gerrymandering. the reason i say that is you get pretty much the same kind of politics in the u.s. senate we cannot gerrymander the district. two per state, and in governor's races. governors represent the entire state. it is not about distance, but in congressional races and in state legislative races it can be a factor. and both parties have become very...
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so i just used these three examples. one in the middle east, one in latin america, one in asia where they be able to do this. and this is an example of leadership to do what's necessary. i mean, n. korea, we've got this done in a couple of months, and four months later, they were raising -- $5 billion in international markets. because they just took a decision and went at it. >> a lot of the things you're talking about, the leadership, political leadership, timing, and the banking union, gave the banks back into lending and the fiscal pact in those components on that part. just as an aside, in talking about another country, russia. you know, russia desperately wants to reproduce itself to the rest of the world. and not in some of the main it has been. they get this opportunity with the g20 coming up in september. crystal ball, do you see anything from a coordination standpoint from the g20, and -- having out of this? this? and easy russia's image change? >> i think this is a big opportunity for the prime minister to show
so i just used these three examples. one in the middle east, one in latin america, one in asia where they be able to do this. and this is an example of leadership to do what's necessary. i mean, n. korea, we've got this done in a couple of months, and four months later, they were raising -- $5 billion in international markets. because they just took a decision and went at it. >> a lot of the things you're talking about, the leadership, political leadership, timing, and the banking union,...
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it wasn't the rest of the world doing it to us. it was us doing it to the rest of the world, and that's my answer. if steve was here to why i didn't blame these international trade imbalances for the crisis. >> my name is can be and i'm -- my name is ken and i'm an economist. >> as opposed to an ordinary person. >> that's what i'm sometimes told. let me offer a hypothesis for your comment. at the time that the obama administration was trying to determine the size they for the deficit for the stimulus package there were expectations if they didn't do anything the amount of gdp decline would be at a certain level. in fact, however, the trajectory was far, far steeper, and, therefore, a primary criticism of the stimulus package is not that it was too large but it was too small. >> i half agree with that and let me explain. the agree part is -- let me just put on my economist hat because that's what i am. if you look at the perils facing us and what had happened already, what was likely to happen, a larger fiscal stimulus was called fo
it wasn't the rest of the world doing it to us. it was us doing it to the rest of the world, and that's my answer. if steve was here to why i didn't blame these international trade imbalances for the crisis. >> my name is can be and i'm -- my name is ken and i'm an economist. >> as opposed to an ordinary person. >> that's what i'm sometimes told. let me offer a hypothesis for your comment. at the time that the obama administration was trying to determine the size they for the...
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if we were in some other court where you could use conspiracy conspiracy would be a useful mechanism. have you considered whether it using the military tribunals, a dichotomize choice, military tribunals, we better off building article i courts that would have been tailor-made to do this job, stands by article iii judges on t catch service and could build a system that could have done this. we are 12 years into the process and haven't made much progress. we have been to the supreme court three times but nothing like the actual prosecution of significant numbers of people seems to be happening. >> those are great questions. let me first address the conspiracy point. early on after the u.s. started taking prisoners and getting them from various means, directly capturing them or getting them turned over by allies or a bounty or what have you, the question arose about how to prosecute them and the lack of evidence against them force committing specific acts was a problem and it was discussed in the justice department to make membership in al qaeda or the taliban itself a crime. but that w
if we were in some other court where you could use conspiracy conspiracy would be a useful mechanism. have you considered whether it using the military tribunals, a dichotomize choice, military tribunals, we better off building article i courts that would have been tailor-made to do this job, stands by article iii judges on t catch service and could build a system that could have done this. we are 12 years into the process and haven't made much progress. we have been to the supreme court three...
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churchill did consume more alcohol than we're used today. not a great deal by the standards of the contemporary and drink didn't effect him or his work. churchill drank a small amount of whiskey with soda, no ice, in a glass about this big. they called it mouthwash. at lunch and dinner he drank a half bottle of champagne. they sent him a case of the 1928 until the sum mys ran out in 1953. when churchill died in 1965 he had only gone through the 1934 vintage. after his death, they ordered that all bottles imported to britain would have a black mourning ban stripped across the bottle. every dinner and important occasion throughout his life, was marked with champagne. after dinner, churchill drank brandy. neat. and, by the way, he drank brandy not port. early had his life a doctor recommended brandy instead of port. this is one of the few times he followed a doctor's orders. perhaps knowing that port would be bad for what he called his indy, always patting his stomach when he said this. his indy jex something he suffered from given the meals he
churchill did consume more alcohol than we're used today. not a great deal by the standards of the contemporary and drink didn't effect him or his work. churchill drank a small amount of whiskey with soda, no ice, in a glass about this big. they called it mouthwash. at lunch and dinner he drank a half bottle of champagne. they sent him a case of the 1928 until the sum mys ran out in 1953. when churchill died in 1965 he had only gone through the 1934 vintage. after his death, they ordered that...
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thank you for joining us. [applause] i am excited that mayor denise parker and -- are here with us tonight. [applause] denise parker is one of my heroes, one of my favorite people and a touristic mayor. please stand mayor and first lady cathy. [applause] you can see past presentations of the progressive forum on our web site, great minds such as jane goodall, richard leahy, bill moyers and supreme court justice john paul stevens. go to our web site at progressive form houston.org. that is progressive forum houston.org. we are pleased to give a book to every attendee tonight. just show your ticket in the distribution table in the grand foyer. additional books are also on sale in the grand foyer by the bookshop. after justice sotomayor's presentation presentations you would join me for a q&a. i should say a supreme court rules don't allow us to discuss court cases of the past, present or future but we will delve deeply into her fascinating story. justice sotomayor will sign books, and greet fans in the grand foy
thank you for joining us. [applause] i am excited that mayor denise parker and -- are here with us tonight. [applause] denise parker is one of my heroes, one of my favorite people and a touristic mayor. please stand mayor and first lady cathy. [applause] you can see past presentations of the progressive forum on our web site, great minds such as jane goodall, richard leahy, bill moyers and supreme court justice john paul stevens. go to our web site at progressive form houston.org. that is...
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we have a few people here with us and we're happy to have c-span join us. thank you very much to be here, and illinois channel is here and liz daryl from the tribune, literary book section, is with us, and we appreciate all of them being here, also voice of america is covering us today as well. just before we go on, should tell you all that while we're live -- and this is not for c-span unfortunately but while we're live you can e-mail in questions. we hope you will. give your first name and where you're from and we'll shout out and try to get it on air as quakily as we can. if you're watching the archives you can always ask us if we have signed books or leftovers. don't want to be with the screen play of the lincoln movie after it gets to be an oscar winner and you don't have it signed. so get it now while you can. and if you're on c-span and would like to be part of us i hope you will by getting to virtual book signing.net and leave your e-mail and be part of the virtual book signing family. also, i should let you know that next month we're not going to h
we have a few people here with us and we're happy to have c-span join us. thank you very much to be here, and illinois channel is here and liz daryl from the tribune, literary book section, is with us, and we appreciate all of them being here, also voice of america is covering us today as well. just before we go on, should tell you all that while we're live -- and this is not for c-span unfortunately but while we're live you can e-mail in questions. we hope you will. give your first name and...
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strength across lines that divide us. it's not new that we remember our history that race relations are involved. i think that we should be ashamed of doing it both on the left and the right that we don't do it, and if you're interested in why, i've mentioned george wallace, i can also, people in the civil rights movement turned against a lot of their own examples. number one, nine violence. nonviolence became in popular among people in the civil rights movement. the most powerful idea was the first one that was abandoned and there are a lot of other pashtun religious. the left turned against religious. when it was half of the movement inspiration and half of dr. king's magnificent formula of equal souls and equal votes, one foot in the scriptures, one foot in the constitution. than the next thing you know people are turning against the spiritual base of democracy. we must remember the civil war for centuries, when our growing up in atlantic of my textbooks in the civil war had nothing to do with slavery and we got a lot
strength across lines that divide us. it's not new that we remember our history that race relations are involved. i think that we should be ashamed of doing it both on the left and the right that we don't do it, and if you're interested in why, i've mentioned george wallace, i can also, people in the civil rights movement turned against a lot of their own examples. number one, nine violence. nonviolence became in popular among people in the civil rights movement. the most powerful idea was the...
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all the way up to much more valuable uses. >> host: are shared uses a possibility? >> guest: it is one possibility. but we also believe exclusive licensing -- it's probably one of the best ways to encourage economic growth and development. [inaudible] i will also say that given how deeply and intensive the spectrum is right now, there will probably be more going forward. >> host: is a government sitting on a new sector that should be released to the market? >> guest: yes, i think the straightforward answer would probably be yes. but it is actually require some background in information. when you need it, it's very important that you have access to it, even if you don't have all the time. but there is expense among government users. if you think about it, they are not commercial and economic consensus uses. they don't have to pay for the spectrum. they don't have to monetize it in any way. they can just use it and basically it is given to them. as a result, they are not always thinking about how to make it more efficient use of it. the government doesn't necessarily
all the way up to much more valuable uses. >> host: are shared uses a possibility? >> guest: it is one possibility. but we also believe exclusive licensing -- it's probably one of the best ways to encourage economic growth and development. [inaudible] i will also say that given how deeply and intensive the spectrum is right now, there will probably be more going forward. >> host: is a government sitting on a new sector that should be released to the market? >> guest:...
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really use one. >> thank you very much. [applause] >> for more information visit the author's website taylor branch.com. .. >> on sunday we sit down with patricia -- [inaudible] author of "reclaiming fair use," and kenneth anderson. both authors are professors at american university where booktv recently visited as part of our college series. watch these programs and more all weekend long on booktv. for a complete schedule, visit booktv.org. >> from new york city, now, michelle rhee, former chancellor of the d.c. public school system, recounts her career and present her thoughts on education reform. this event is about 45 minutes. [applause] >> michelle, firstly, thank you very much for joining us. i know you've had a couple busy days from last evening, jon stewart, cnn's piers morgan, and we're really delighted to have our old friends here from c-span filming this event so that many people from across the united states can benefit from a lot of what michelle has to say. so just to kick start it this evening, michelle, how
really use one. >> thank you very much. [applause] >> for more information visit the author's website taylor branch.com. .. >> on sunday we sit down with patricia -- [inaudible] author of "reclaiming fair use," and kenneth anderson. both authors are professors at american university where booktv recently visited as part of our college series. watch these programs and more all weekend long on booktv. for a complete schedule, visit booktv.org. >> from new york...
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you can tweet us @booktv, comment on our facebook wall or send us an e-mail. booktv, nonfiction books every weekend on c-span2. >> here is a look at some books that are being published this week. matthew goodman recounts the story of two women journalists in the late 19th century who attempted to break the record for the fastest trip around the world "in eighty days." in "with charity for all: why charities are failing and a were the way to give," former ceo of npr ken stern investigates u.s. nonprofit organizations and argues that the industry needs to be reformed. pulitzer prize-winning reporter michael moss reports from inside the labs and boardrooms of the processed foods industry in "salt sugar fat." in the battle of bretton woods, benn steil, senior fellow and director of economics at the council on foreign relations recounts the united nations' monetary conference that took place in bretton woods, new hampshire, and resulted in the creation of the international monetary fund and the international bank for reconstruction and development. now part of the
you can tweet us @booktv, comment on our facebook wall or send us an e-mail. booktv, nonfiction books every weekend on c-span2. >> here is a look at some books that are being published this week. matthew goodman recounts the story of two women journalists in the late 19th century who attempted to break the record for the fastest trip around the world "in eighty days." in "with charity for all: why charities are failing and a were the way to give," former ceo of npr ken...
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you can tweet us @booktv, comment on our facebook wall, send us an e-mail. booktv, nonfiction books every weekend on c-span2. p. >> so if you cut demand for somebody's product per day by 50% per total by 60%, you must have crushed prices. here's what actually happened. the average amount medicare reimburses per day in a hospital has grown by 5x since 1983. so 60% decline in the number of patients, 5x increase in price. we should all be so lucky. i wallet to be in that business. -- i want to be in that business. now, another statistic which is entirely sort of irrelevant but fascinating. hospitals tell medicare what their costs are so that medicare can power the price -- can compare the price they pay to hospitals' costs. so in those 30 years that medicare increased the price paid to hospitals by five times, hospitals reported that hair costs had incleesed -- that their costs had increased by eight times. so the interesting thing is our demand collapsed. in any industry that would have been devastating, right? medicare paid five times as more, but the hospita
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how do they look at us? and as i speak about saudi arabia, everyone constantly asks me, why did you do that? why did you spend five years month after month going there? dressed in my long black -- my editor asked me that actually when i turned in the manuscript. she said, you know, why did you do this? and i said, because it's interesting that and she said, harris is interesting. interesting. [laughter] so why did you do this? you know, make me understand. that was her only editing going on the book. so i will try to make you understand why i found it both fascinating and important. saudi arabia is probably the strangest country you will never see. it is so different from our own. a woman and there never reaches the age of maturity. she is always under the control of some man. she cannot go to her son's school. she cannot even see her son graduate. she obviously doesn't drive. we all know that. she doesn't appear in public without being covered. and you know, when the worst situation, she is simply chattel f
how do they look at us? and as i speak about saudi arabia, everyone constantly asks me, why did you do that? why did you spend five years month after month going there? dressed in my long black -- my editor asked me that actually when i turned in the manuscript. she said, you know, why did you do this? and i said, because it's interesting that and she said, harris is interesting. interesting. [laughter] so why did you do this? you know, make me understand. that was her only editing going on the...
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you can tweak us on booktv, comment on our facebook call or send us an e-mail, booktv, nonfiction books every weekend on c-span2. >> now on c-span2 we bring you booktv, 48 hours of nonfiction authors and books. here are some programs to look out for this weekend. at 5:00 p.m. eastern, ben shapiro argues liberals believe their competition discouraging political debate. at 2:00 a.m. michele alexander opines that policies from the 70s for and acted to push back gains made during the civil-rights movement. on sunday with recent policy debates on immigration we bring you stories from immigrants who share their experiences on booktv at 4:00 p.m. eastern. at 11:00 p.m. sunday melvin goodman argues the government is spending excessively on defense making us less secure. watch these programs and more all weekend long on booktv. for complete schedule visit booktv.org. up next on booktv cita stelzer talks about the dinner hosted by winston churchill during and after world war ii which were used to persuade world leaders to adopt his position on various matters. it is about 40 minutes. >> good even
you can tweak us on booktv, comment on our facebook call or send us an e-mail, booktv, nonfiction books every weekend on c-span2. >> now on c-span2 we bring you booktv, 48 hours of nonfiction authors and books. here are some programs to look out for this weekend. at 5:00 p.m. eastern, ben shapiro argues liberals believe their competition discouraging political debate. at 2:00 a.m. michele alexander opines that policies from the 70s for and acted to push back gains made during the...
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that's the word i'd use very carefully. it is not a culture of of of stereotypical rambo-kind of things because that's not the way special operations succeed. that's how you lose. and so you have to build a culture that a is evolved of problem solving, and problem solving in which building teams does that. so what happened is we went up through the first -- i was in the rangers and then joint special operations command through the first gulf war where we did scud hunting, hunting for iraqi missiles out in western iraq. and we were getting better and better at what we did. we all paid huge attention to what mark wrote so brilliantly about in black hawk down. that was the operation mogadishu. we went to school on that experience aided by the document that he had written on an operation that had gone very badly but then had been, essentially, dealt with by the force on the ground with extraordinary courage. but a lot of holes in what we could do came out. we came out as a fairly brittle force, ie, if everything went perfectly
that's the word i'd use very carefully. it is not a culture of of of stereotypical rambo-kind of things because that's not the way special operations succeed. that's how you lose. and so you have to build a culture that a is evolved of problem solving, and problem solving in which building teams does that. so what happened is we went up through the first -- i was in the rangers and then joint special operations command through the first gulf war where we did scud hunting, hunting for iraqi...
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that's kind of falling away with people using it for international law today. that's my limited understanding of it but you're right, they work together. >> had to do with a lot of other things as well, including how to treat guerrillas in guerrilla warfare, behavior of occupation troops in their relationship with civilians. so it's not just -- >> all of that part has endured. >> now, had a question for james mcpherson, i read in your book something interesting about at the start of the war, very early on, how both side didn't -- believed the war wouldn't last long. the rebelled and the yankees going bo it, even before sumpter, it would be relatively short skirmish, ask that's -- they were going to squash each other, and both things entoured starting with bull run and -- shen anyone dough -- and at the rfk of sounding tyrannical. was there evidence to suggest that perhaps the eman's make proclamation was issued by abraham lincoln as props a bold measure to really speed up the war by way of total war versus a head rush tolds total war, and this perhaps could be
that's kind of falling away with people using it for international law today. that's my limited understanding of it but you're right, they work together. >> had to do with a lot of other things as well, including how to treat guerrillas in guerrilla warfare, behavior of occupation troops in their relationship with civilians. so it's not just -- >> all of that part has endured. >> now, had a question for james mcpherson, i read in your book something interesting about at the...
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tell us about it. >> it is my story of being a single mom for 23 years. i became a single mom is pregnant with my third son. there is rough days and good days and what i did this throughout that time i never heard a positive message from the right or left of encouraging words or instruction may be a help us get along because the odds are against kids who have only one mom or one parent in the home. so i broke the book as they can do both. is out eight, positive message, not only for single moms, the parents. we all relate to some extent. and say those covers my heart and soul. >> people who know your career know you as a republican. is this book free of? >> this book is apolitical. i don't care how you came a single mom. this book is about helping you be successful in making certain as kids have a chance to be as successful as any other child independent of what their circumstances are. so that is why ski is so much is out there and so much makes you feel as a single mom to you somehow failed or that odds are against you or that it's too much work and it'
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they always use cotton and had a wonderful shaft. the odd mcnamara and george shultz and general westmoreland would all get in great guys. it was better than any university to hear what they thought and you had senators thayer was huge bellicose discussions and nick cave grandstander, i think it was slightly different because she had a huge number of people, but there she makes all the senators and all the businessmen from new york and other people from washington. so people got to know each other, got to talk. there is a wonderful scene one night walking through and everybody was talking to him and bill gates was hovering behind and nobody was speaking to bill gates. bill gates turned to me and said why doesn't anybody talk to me? [laughter] and i thought it's because nobody knows what to talk to you about. we show our ignorance the moment we talked to bill gates. i used to watch helms talk to the senator he wanted to talk to. it would have been very difficult to go up on the hill, get an appointment to talk to the senator. it was a
they always use cotton and had a wonderful shaft. the odd mcnamara and george shultz and general westmoreland would all get in great guys. it was better than any university to hear what they thought and you had senators thayer was huge bellicose discussions and nick cave grandstander, i think it was slightly different because she had a huge number of people, but there she makes all the senators and all the businessmen from new york and other people from washington. so people got to know each...
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were in the white house she called us back and said i found something really interesting. would you be interested in covering it? i found myself on a plane to birmingham, alabama, where i visited churches, spent time in the archives, tried to find out as much as i could about the first lady's great-grandfather who happened to be by racial and the story ran a month later on the front page of the new york times about the office's parents, millennia, the first lady's great great great grandmother who was the slave girl valued at $475 in 1852 and the first lady's great, great grandfather who was a white man whose identity was a mystery. the day after the article ran, an editor sent me an e-mail and said that was fascinating. a little snippet of the first lady's family tree. would you think of doing a book on the old thing and that is how i got started. >> we are glad you got started on the book because it opens up a lot of information about families across america and the interconnectedness of many families. what i like about your book is it reads like a good suspense mystery
were in the white house she called us back and said i found something really interesting. would you be interested in covering it? i found myself on a plane to birmingham, alabama, where i visited churches, spent time in the archives, tried to find out as much as i could about the first lady's great-grandfather who happened to be by racial and the story ran a month later on the front page of the new york times about the office's parents, millennia, the first lady's great great great grandmother...
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if the clan was not after us or the police, but that somebody would see us here, who would report it to his father who would lose customers because word got out. it's never about anybody else, but me. it imprisoned everyone in a circle of fear, and every breath you take is lifted by the fact that reality is no longer there, but those are the things we take for granted. those are the things we take for granted, not just across racial relations, but in the fact that we are the sun belt now. we have professional sports teams in the soit that we couldn't have when we were segregated. my dear mayor ivan allen said as soon as the bill was passed, atlanta built a stadium for a team they didn't have, on ground they didn't have, and it got the braves to move here and become the first professional sports team in the south. dr. king said that when negroes, the term then, liberated themselves from segregation because it was right and because it we want to the core premises of equal soles and equal votes to the core of the constitution and the core of the scriptures, it would liberate, and psycho
if the clan was not after us or the police, but that somebody would see us here, who would report it to his father who would lose customers because word got out. it's never about anybody else, but me. it imprisoned everyone in a circle of fear, and every breath you take is lifted by the fact that reality is no longer there, but those are the things we take for granted. those are the things we take for granted, not just across racial relations, but in the fact that we are the sun belt now. we...
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send us an e-mail at booktv@c-span.org or tweet us at twitter.com/book tv. >> tell us what you think about our programming this weekend. you can tweet us @booktv, comment on our facebook wall or send us an e-mail. booktv, nonfiction books every weekend on c-span2. >> political strategist bay buchanan has written a new book, "bay and her boys." tell us a little bit about it. >> well, the book is my story about being a single mom for 23 years. i payment a single mom when i was pregnant with my third son, and there's rough days, and there's good day, and what i did is throughout that time i never heard a positive message from the right or the left of encouraging words or instruction maybe that help us get along because the odds are against can kids who have only one mom or one parent in the home. so i wrote the book to just say it's a can-do book. look, you can do it. it's an upbeat, positive message not only for single moms, but for all parents. i think we all relate to some extent. and inside those covers are my heart and soul. those are my best years. >> people who know your career k
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the iron gate clubhouse was still an operating base of the us army 82nd airborne. the young paratroopers steered with curiosity. waiting out front was a more fully face, slide between a blue t-shirt and if the truckers had come was becoming a force is more powerful. sean penn had arrived in haiti \90{l1}s{l0}\'90{l1}s{l0} after the quake, spearheading an ngo. for a few days the relief organization distributed water filters and medical relief here and there, that armed officer was invited inside the weather everyone on the team, soldiers were most excited about penn's after. both actors live in a tall white content restructure tax safety behind clubhouse which protected them from the elements. he walked to the actress downhill towards the tent of other get the patrick lindsey island ongoing medical needs. u.n. and haitian police emphasize the need to protect women and girls in sexual violence but finally he led them to ridge overlooking the golf course but cameras he called out, drunken journalists before thousands of -- directing journalists before thousands. i'm c
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, widespread phrase used to justify the emancipation proclamation, a military necessity to help us win the war by weakening the confederacy. it was certainly part of that process. >> in anticipation of greater bloodshed for that matter and some of the skirmishes that followed. >> well, nobody in january 1st , 1863, could know whether the war was going to go on for another 28 months as they did, or even longer organize. but clearly it is arty gone on for almost two years and i think you're quite right to suggest that one of the hopes weis would help the north to win the war sooner. the reaction among a lot of northern people as well as most southern weis was that this would prolong the war by making the southern people fight even harder because now there is much more at stake for them. if they lose the war, there might've been before emancipation became the professed policy but the emancipation proclamation. so they were both reactions. one vendor may speed up the war and bring the war to an end sooner. in my prolong the war and make it even more bloody. >> the book mentioned by john wh
, widespread phrase used to justify the emancipation proclamation, a military necessity to help us win the war by weakening the confederacy. it was certainly part of that process. >> in anticipation of greater bloodshed for that matter and some of the skirmishes that followed. >> well, nobody in january 1st , 1863, could know whether the war was going to go on for another 28 months as they did, or even longer organize. but clearly it is arty gone on for almost two years and i think...
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they will worry about it and waste damaging to us. the most important thing is that the u.s. doesn't understand a guarantee system as an act or from the outside, the consequences going to be a scramble among scared and worried racing great powers who we all should fear we come to in south china sea. post rss if you were the last two u.s. ambassadors to the u.n. >> host: the last two ambassadors. well, here's the thing. john bolton was excoriated as someone who despise the u.n. that you could chop off the top seven or 10 stories that no one would ever notice there at its headquarters. >> host: do you agree with that statement? >> guest: i agree about 80%. as somebody said, i've actually found found it quite conciliatory and the message is american liberals need to understand the u.n. is not going anywhere. it's not going to grow into this wonderful theme, which is going to govern the world in some sort of way. american conservatives need to understand the u.n. is not going anywhere. they need to understand that it's not going anywhere and two different ways. the liberals need
they will worry about it and waste damaging to us. the most important thing is that the u.s. doesn't understand a guarantee system as an act or from the outside, the consequences going to be a scramble among scared and worried racing great powers who we all should fear we come to in south china sea. post rss if you were the last two u.s. ambassadors to the u.n. >> host: the last two ambassadors. well, here's the thing. john bolton was excoriated as someone who despise the u.n. that you...
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communities are a strength for us. that bill was passed in 1965. i guarantee you that not one person in 100 who studies the civil rights movement understands that it is a third pillar within the building rights act of 1965 to build a structure that will be not only a great strength, but a great inspiration. it is essential for diversity and we have to learn how to get along with one another. we are unconscious to a lot of these things that are consequences of the freedom set in motion by this movement that struggle for eight years. finally he gets a nobel the nobel prize, and all of his staff says let's do this, and he says no, next week. and then he is back in jail. the mountaintop is nice, but the valley called. we are all blessed by that, but we are unconscious about it. the example of it, the example that i want to give you as to how great i think the disconnect is, is that george wallace made that speech in 1953, and he could not prevent any of these great tides are coming. if you have a daughter and you want your
communities are a strength for us. that bill was passed in 1965. i guarantee you that not one person in 100 who studies the civil rights movement understands that it is a third pillar within the building rights act of 1965 to build a structure that will be not only a great strength, but a great inspiration. it is essential for diversity and we have to learn how to get along with one another. we are unconscious to a lot of these things that are consequences of the freedom set in motion by this...
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all of us are sinners, all of us have done wrong, all of us have broken the law at some point in many our lives -- at some point in our lives. if you're an adult, you've broken the law at some point in your life. now, i find that some people will say, oh, yeah, i'm a sinner, i've made mistakes, but don't call me a criminal. don't call me a criminal. i say, okay, well, maybe you never drank underage, maybe you never experimented with drugs. well, if the worst thing you've done in your entire life is speed ten miles over the speed limit on the freeway, you've put yourself and others at more risk of harm than someone smoking marijuana in the privacy of their living room. but there are people in the united states serving life sentences for first-time truck offenses -- drug offenses. life sentences. the u.s. supreme court upheld life sentences for first-time drug offenders against an eighth amendment challenge that such sentences were cruel and unusual in violation of the eighth amendment, and the u.s. supreme court said, no, no, it's not cruel and unusual punishment to sentence a young ma
all of us are sinners, all of us have done wrong, all of us have broken the law at some point in many our lives -- at some point in our lives. if you're an adult, you've broken the law at some point in your life. now, i find that some people will say, oh, yeah, i'm a sinner, i've made mistakes, but don't call me a criminal. don't call me a criminal. i say, okay, well, maybe you never drank underage, maybe you never experimented with drugs. well, if the worst thing you've done in your entire...
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poster thank you so much, patrick james are with us. again the book is "the international relations of middle-earth: learning from the lord of the rings" this has been the scholar circle. i am maria armoudian and we will see you next week. >> guest: thank you so much. >> and her work, "pat nixon," mary brennan recounts the life. mrs. nixon's recent release private documents. this is just over 15 minutes. >> welcome to the richard nixon presidential library and museum. my name is paul paul wormser anm acting director of the library. i appreciate all of you, into one american canoeing author top presentations. today we are very fortunate to have really the leading scholar on pat nixon who was born 100 years ago this year. mary brennan, who did much of the research here for her book, is the chair of the department of history at the university of texas and san marcos. her specialty is post-world war ii conservative movement then she has written to date three different books. that's been turning right at the 16th, capture of the gop, wives a
poster thank you so much, patrick james are with us. again the book is "the international relations of middle-earth: learning from the lord of the rings" this has been the scholar circle. i am maria armoudian and we will see you next week. >> guest: thank you so much. >> and her work, "pat nixon," mary brennan recounts the life. mrs. nixon's recent release private documents. this is just over 15 minutes. >> welcome to the richard nixon presidential library...
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we need a legal architecture for the use of the drones. israel has drones, hezbollah at least has one and they have the supply to them. what happens when russia starts using them in the soviet republics or china. >> too many things they do without thinking to the national missile defense. we could develop national missile defense. it doesn't seem to be slowing anyone down but they still pull the money into it every year because we can do it instead of having the missile defense and get serious about cutting back strategic offensive arms. they haven't been address to. there's a lot of if we have the control that clinton abolished because jesse helms made them nervous and they can address those things. the arms control lobby in the country was quite effective we don't see much of their activity anymore. >> they've been very successful after world war ii the difficulty in iraq and afghanistan. >> the party in afghanistan is the trying to do with the soviets try to do where they take a page out of the playbook which is you come in and try to b
we need a legal architecture for the use of the drones. israel has drones, hezbollah at least has one and they have the supply to them. what happens when russia starts using them in the soviet republics or china. >> too many things they do without thinking to the national missile defense. we could develop national missile defense. it doesn't seem to be slowing anyone down but they still pull the money into it every year because we can do it instead of having the missile defense and get...
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he's very, very smart, and he understands he can use outside institution like media matters, he can use outside institutions like organizing for action, what was obama for america, he can use those institutions to push positions he cannot do as president of the united states. he combines with those institutions to push forward that agenda and to silence people and to launch boycotts and secondary boycotts against anybody who disagrees. we now live in a country where if you abide by the basic laws of economics, you are an enemy of this administration. if you are phil mickelson and say the taxes in california are too high, i'm leaving, then you are told that you are somehow a bad person. there's something wrong with you. now, there are a lot of people who have left california because the taxes are too high. i think every day about whether to leave california because of the tax rate. that's because economics economists. exists. the left doesn't think they do. so when wendy's says obamacare is going to cost money, perhaps we'll have to cut back hours, and the left responds with if you do th
he's very, very smart, and he understands he can use outside institution like media matters, he can use outside institutions like organizing for action, what was obama for america, he can use those institutions to push positions he cannot do as president of the united states. he combines with those institutions to push forward that agenda and to silence people and to launch boycotts and secondary boycotts against anybody who disagrees. we now live in a country where if you abide by the basic...